Your Name wrote on 13. January 2016:
>
> A friend of mine had the crappy Sinclair toys (a ZX81 and then a
> Spectrum) while I had real computers (VIC20 and C64).

You got to love the attribute clashing [1] ("bleeding" or how you call
it). Couldn't get this on a Commodore, even if wanted to pay for it. ;-)

> Sinclair's toys were stupidly small, had disgusting "keyboards", and
> were ridiculously silly to "program" - you *had* to use the silly
> keycodes press to write your BASIC program, which in one case meant
> pushing three keys to get something like the "If" statement.  :-\

Wasn't there a certain key to press that it would print the key you
actually type on the screen?

> Sinclair only sold so many because they were cheap ... cheap and nasty.

My guess too.

[1] Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_clash mentions the
    Commodore 64 also had the problem I cannot remember having seen this.
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Andreas

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